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What does Evernote do?

Tool: Evernote

The Tech: Note Taking

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Their Pitch

Your second brain.

Our Take

A digital filing cabinet that reads text inside your photos and PDFs. Pretty good at turning your chaotic note-taking into something you can actually find later.

Deep Dive & Reality Check

Used For

  • +**Hunting through 500+ screenshots for that one receipt or note** → Search pulls it up in seconds by reading the text inside images
  • +**Bookmarking articles that disappear into browser bookmark hell** → Web clipper saves clean, searchable copies you'll actually find again
  • +**Email chains about projects getting buried in your inbox** → Forward emails to your Evernote address, everything becomes searchable notes
  • +Scans business cards and turns them into searchable contacts automatically
  • +AI summarizes your long meeting notes so you can remember what actually mattered

Best For

  • >You're drowning in bookmarked articles, random screenshots, and can never find that one thing you saved
  • >Research-heavy work where you need to clip web articles and find them months later
  • >Your phone camera roll is 80% screenshots of important stuff you'll "deal with later"

Not For

  • -Teams wanting serious project management — the task features are pretty basic compared to actual task apps
  • -People expecting full functionality on free tier — you'll hit device sync limits fast and need to pay up
  • -Anyone who wants simple, fast note-taking — this is built for digital pack rats who save everything

Pairs With

  • *Google Calendar (shows your schedule alongside relevant meeting notes in one view)
  • *Slack (to share notes with your team instead of copying-and-pasting into chat)
  • *Google Drive (for files too big for Evernote or when you need real-time collaboration)
  • *Zapier (to automatically create notes from other apps like CRM updates or form submissions)
  • *Gmail (forward important emails to become searchable notes)

The Catch

  • !Free tier limits you to 2 devices, so you'll need premium if you use phone + laptop + tablet
  • !The AI and advanced search features that make it worthwhile are locked behind paid plans
  • !You'll spend more time organizing tags and notebooks than you think — it's easy to create a mess

Bottom Line

The only note app that can search inside your screenshots and PDF receipts — if you can live with the device sync limits on free tier.